Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. The outcome of the midterms. And even future president ial elections. Essentially, alex jones has been deleted from these websites. You wonder if hell have any influence Going Forward because the private companies who have an incredible amount of control over the internet. Laura thats the point. Controlling who has a voice and who doesnt on these Monster Platforms is tantamount to limiting speech and its also viewpoint discrimination. Back in february, facebook launched a new algorithm that would cause top conservative pages to see a dramatic drop in traffic. And this included personal pages. President trumps Facebook Page saw a 45 drop. Diamond and silk said their content was similarly blocked on facebook. Facebook along with other social media sites have taken aggressive actions to silence
conservative voices by deliberately distributing
and speak up. there s no place for it on the republican or democrat side. laura: we were talking earlier about facebook and apple moving against more conservative voices beyond alex jones but to others who have seen their voices diminished on these mega platforms. trillions of dollars of market cap in these countries. are you concerned that groups like antifa which has incited violence at these rallies, i mean they continue on youtube and facebook seemingly with imprudent. it s clearly a double standard. we pointed some of this out. when mark zuckerberg testified just a few weeks ago i brought this up, the bias that we re seeing in facebook as they put a algorithm in place to change the way people get their news feeds
billion that mr. zuckerberg took a hit on, he s made a decision that his company is going to start making different decisions on content than he did before. but info wars is still out there on instagram. it s still there. and instagram is huge. twitter is out there. laura: you see no difference between a cable channel there s how many cable channels out there? i don t even know. there s a lot. from a cable channel and youtube. or facebook. or the entire apple platform worth $1 trillion. you see no difference as far as their control of information? really? what is the equivalent of youtube. i m not sure where you re going. laura: it s controlling information. i don t know laura: there isn t one. instagram. laura: you don t know social
conservative voices by deliberately distributing and weaponizing our page with algorithms that censor our free speech. laura: then it was youtube who only ended up limiting channels, temporarily, de montizing them with no warning at all. this has happened to ben shapiro, dave ruben and dennis frager. for many on the left the view has become if you can t beat them, prevent them from speaking. just look at what happened to conservative speakers on college campuses. and after liberal radio hosts on air america, some democrats thought to revise the fairness doctrine to snuff out conservative talk radio. thankfully that went nowhere. but now they have moved on to the internet and squelching